Tag: Windows Azure Virtual Machines

When I visit customers, the curiosity about Azure is always very high. One of the most frequent questions I get is: “Can you help me to identify what I can do to modernize my datacenter leveraging some of the hybrid services that Azure offers?” Well, that is an interesting question, but a simple blog…

This week I have delivered a session on SQL Server 2014 scenarios with Windows Azure at the Community Days 2014. Contents have been delivered in Italian but slides are in English. You can download slides and demos using links below: Documento di &amp;lt;a target="_blank" href="http://office.com" data-mce-href="http://office.com"&amp;gt;Microsoft Office&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; incorporato, con tecnologia &amp;lt;a target="_blank" href="http://office.com/webapps" data-mce-href="http://office.com/webapps"&amp;gt;Office Web Apps&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;….

In this blog post, I will describe one interesting feature included in SQL Server 2014: the capability of adding an availability group secondary replica in Windows Azure through a useful Wizard. I have already published a couple of articles talking about Windows Azure and SQL Server in hybrid scenarios. I will reference them later in…

In this article, we will explore a SQL Server high availability and disaster recovery scenario with SQL Server Database Mirroring configured across two different Windows Azure datacenters, one in Western Europe and one in West US. Currently, a limitation in Windows Azure virtual networks does not allow an Active Directory domain to span across two…

SQL Server 2014 (The CTP2 can be downloaded from here) adds many features that simplify the life of the DBA who isn’t very familiar with the Cloud world. One of them is the possibility to deploy a Database to a Windows Azure Virtual Machine. It is a very straightforward process that can be run on-premises…

In this step-by-step guide I will explain how to protect a SQL Server 2014 CTP1 server instance using System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 and Windows Azure Backup. For the purpose of this blog post, I will use an environment completely cloud based, but consider that this will also work in an on-premises scenario…

Join me and my colleagues from Microsoft Italy to see Windows Azure IaaS in action! The partecipation is free and the event will take place in Milan, Gran Visconti Palace. The workshop will be delivered in Italian Language. Registration page: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032556426&Culture=it-IT&community=0 Hurry, seats are limited! For more details please refer to the information below…

Microsoft has released a very useful whitepaper regarding the performances optimization of SQL Server when executed in a Windows Azure Virtual Machines environment (Iaas). You can download it from the SQL Customer Advisory Team web site:http://sqlcat.com/sqlcat/b/whitepapers/archive/2013/05/31/performance-guidance-for-sql-server-in-windows-azure-virtual-machines.aspx Good reading Francesco